Diana Perez

Experience

During her career, Diana has worked as a cook, culinary producer, recipe developer, tester, and editor, researcher, food stylist and educator, working with chefs such as Lidia Bastianich, Bobby Flay, and Alex Stupak, as well as bakers such as Jim Lahey of the Sullivan Street Bakery. In 2015, Diana was a member of the social media team of the USA Pavilion at Expo Milano, working with the U.S. Department of State showcasing American cuisine to over six million visitors from around the world throughout the 6 months of the world’s fair. There, she documented visits by chefs such as Massimo Bottura, José Andrés, Daniel Humm, Andrew Carmellini, among others, and former First Lady Michelle Obama.

Diana also worked as an editorial assistant to Gael Greene, the former restaurant critic of New York Magazine, and most recently was a research contributor to Modernist Pizza by Modernist Cuisine, the definitive, groundbreaking book on all things pizza, where she uncovered previously unknown early pizzerias in the United States and chronicled the history of tomatoes and mozzarella. During the pandemic, Diana was a culinary educator at the Stanley M. Isaacs Neighborhood Center in New York. She is the Associate Food Editor at Food & Wine, based in Birmingham, Alabama.